About the book: 2004 / Lucrezia Borgia - "maenad, poisoner, bacchante, murderer, incestuous", accused of all sins - has long remained a favorite target of numerous novelists and poets. For five centuries now, the daughter of Pope Alexander VI has been suspected of all sorts of baseness, although not a single piece of evidence has yet been provided to support them. For some she is a devil, for others she is an angel, she is the personification of scandalousness, obscenity and temptation, and perhaps a victim of slander, the purpose of which is to arouse the curiosity of the public... Where is the truth? You will find the answer to this question in the book you are holding in your hands . Its author is a historian, great-granddaughter of the philosopher and historian Hippolyte Taine. To work on this biography, she drew on a huge amount of archival materials, memoirs of contemporaries, as well as correspondence between Lucretia and her father, Pope Alexander VI, which sheds light on “the era of luxury and barbarism that left behind themselves exquisite works of art and memories of magnificent festivities, perfectly combined with violence, betrayal and contract killings. and the French Embassy in Russia.